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We Made Them Angry: Scotland at the World Cup, Spain 1982 by Tom Brogan

Pitch Publishing, £16.99
Reviewed by David Pollock
From WSC 425, October 2022
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Scotland settle in to life as the warm-up act with only tiny glimmers of hope

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Friendlies against World Cup qualifiers Mexico and Peru highlight how much work Alex McLeish still has to do to get Scotland to a tournament

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The steady disappearance of sloped pitches is a sad loss to the game

Barnet Underhill

From Barnet’s Underhill to the Manor Ground of Oxford via Grundy Hill and Easter Road, pitches with a slope have become part of football’s folklore

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Overpowering crowd noises are a rare thing of beauty

It requires extremes of timing to drown out PA systems but nothing beats those roof-rattling, full-throated roars forced out by penalty box drama

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Give and go up

wsc299 Teams can pass their way into the Premier League, but Adam Bate thinks that the long ball game is the best tactic to keep them there

It all looks set for an interesting battle at the top of the Championship. While Southampton are heralded for their pleasing football under Nigel Adkins, West Ham continue to power on with the arch-pragmatist Sam Allardyce. The prevailing wisdom is that trying to play football is not practical in the Championship. But history suggests you can pass your way to promotion.

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